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ericdrosano comments on Seeking reliable evidence - claim that closing sweatshops leads to child prostitution - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ericdrosano 26 March 2014 03:07:32PM 2 points [-]

The following link is to the UNICEF report in its entirety.

http://www.unicef.org/sowc97/

The report talks about, but doesn't delve too deeply, the issue of how displacing child workers from sweatshops can lead to worse consequences for these children (p. 24). More importantly, it talks about the complexity of the situation beyond rhetoric. Sweatshops and exploitative child labor are caused by myriad factors. Solving these goes well beyond either supporting or boycotting companies like Nike who employs over 100,000 people in Indonesia.